Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don’t know where to start. So what I’m looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don’t think space is an issue. I have like a 500+ something GB ssd and the few things that I do need to store are in a cloud. I pretty much use my laptop for browsing, researching, maybe streaming videos, and hopefully more programming and tinkering as I learn more; that’s about all… no gaming or no data hoarding.

Do I basically just start off installing one distro on the full hard drive and then when I go to install the others, just choose the “run alongside” option? or would I have to manually partition things out? Any thing to worry about with conflicts between different types of distros, etc.? hoping you kind folks can offer me some simple advice on how to go about this without messing up my system. It SEEMS simple enough and it might be so, but I just don’t personally know how to go about it lol. Thanks alot!!

  • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Oh and just to be sure, I need to use the live iso for the distro in order to resize partitions, is that right?

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      No, as I said. Install, in the installed OS use the partition manager to resize itself. I think that should work best.

      During the live usb installer phase the system is not installed on disk. You can resize the partition of a running system afaik. If not, yes you may need to use a live usb to do that.

      But main question, why?

      • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
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        1 year ago

        Because I would like three daily drivers, one for each main distro type so I can learn more and explore other types like arch and rhel based, since I’m not knowledgeable on those. But I also want them to be workstations too, for normal usage. Just variety… And of course for learning. I dont just want a live disk to tinker with and thats all. I want these distros to maintain everything I do inside them just like any physically installed distro. Maybe I’m not properly conveying my view idk

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I dont see how this is important.

          • selinux vs apparmor
          • flatpak vs snap vs some package managers with varying names, thats it
          • zram vs swap
          • some filesystem differences

          In the end its all GNU+Linux, the usage is the same. Just use Distrobox and learn how to use that, its so awesome.

          You have a full CLI environment for each distro there, just no SELinux, apparmor or systemd.

          I would recommend you to try Fedora. Mayve even the immutable spins. Thats the future and you can try a lot anyways like what I descriped.